Unbelievable

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 13, 2019
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 80 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 67 out of 80
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 80
  3. Negative: 8 out of 80
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  1. carldamnit
    Sep 19, 2019
    0
    why are they being so mean to her? the over the topness at times when she's not being raped is funny and then I feel bad because this is about rape
  2. OlivierPiel
    Sep 15, 2019
    0
    This show represents what is wrong with many "socially aware" television shows in America. In its desire to be as "truthful" and "realistic" as possible, we are served, in this case, the most detailed process of the police work, hospital, administrations etc...pertaining to a rape.
    The camera wants us to feel "as if we were there".
    However it fails miserably in its depiction of pain    This show represents what is wrong with many "socially aware" television shows in America. In its desire to be as "truthful" and "realistic" as possible, we are served, in this case, the most detailed process of the police work, hospital, administrations etc...pertaining to a rape.
    The camera wants us to feel "as if we were there".
    However it fails miserably in its depiction of pain because we are engulfed by the tediousness of it all and end up not caring about the victim because her pain becomes totally alien to us.
    With just the eye of a camera to look at her, we are left with her blank stares most of the times, and the same recollection of the crime over and over again. As such, we are indeed, deep in the action, but, just like the cop or the nurse or the attorney or even the best friend or closest confident, utterly clueless about the reality of the victim's feelings, ideas, thoughts, desires etc....
    The only interesting angle of this musing on "rape" and the only one that could do it justice would be a naturalistic novel (think Darwin or Emile Zola maybe) that would reveal all the inner workings of our protagonist.
    ....or what a show like Rectify did back a few years. Or, people should watch the excellent "Elle"by Verhoeven with Isabelle Huppert for a really clever "feminist" take on rape. But that would require imagination, which the writers in that show sorely lacked.    … Expand
  3. Nobilis1984
    Sep 14, 2019
    3
    I don't get warm with the series. First of all, I don't like the visual.
    This intermediate thing of real image and anime looks **** Then please correct anime pictures.
    Then the plot is terribly boring.
  4. Noclare01
    Jan 10, 2020
    0
    Don't understand where great reviews coming from??? This has to be the worst most tedious thing we have ever watched on telly. The acting was TERRIBLE, I mean...really, really bad, which made it just totally UNBELIEVABLE! Had to keep going, once we had started into it, to see what happened with Marie, but, jeezo, it was hard to stay awake, or to stop being irritated by atrocious acting.Don't understand where great reviews coming from??? This has to be the worst most tedious thing we have ever watched on telly. The acting was TERRIBLE, I mean...really, really bad, which made it just totally UNBELIEVABLE! Had to keep going, once we had started into it, to see what happened with Marie, but, jeezo, it was hard to stay awake, or to stop being irritated by atrocious acting. How on earth did this get screened????… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#28 Best TV Season of 2019
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#29 Most Discussed TV Season of 2019
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#88 Most Shared TV Season of 2019

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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Amy Jones
    Jan 3, 2020
    100
    Unbelievable isn’t just a gripping story, it’s an incredibly compelling argument for why we need to take a frank look at the way victims of sexual assault are treated and how seriously we take them.
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  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Hannah J Davies
    Dec 4, 2019
    80
    It could’ve been another drab procedural, heavy on cliches borrowed from a thousand crime stories before it. Thankfully, it manages to find another way, by focusing on the grey area of its title. ... It’s about who gets to have their story heard, who is allowed to be believed. It’s about the power dynamics that underpin the criminal justice system and society at large.
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  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Sep 23, 2019
    80
    Gripping eight-episode series. ... It’s about a string of serial rapes (triggers galore), yet the writing and execution are refreshingly empathetic toward victims, procedure and justice.
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